The deputy general secretary of the PS on Wednesday found the comparison made by the vice president of the PSD between the government’s housing measures and Salazar’s “deeply indecent and disrespectful”, and defended that in politics “everything is not worth it” is”.
“In politics, not everything is fair. The memory of our country is very indecent and disrespectful and brings such unnecessary criticism that it does not respect the history of the PSD,” João Torres said in statements to the Lusa agency.
The socialist leader referred to an intervention by PSD vice-president António Leitão Amaro at the Summer University – a social-democratic initiative for the training of young personnel – in Castelo de Vide, Portalegre. Leitão Amaro said that some housing solutions proposed by the prime minister are similar to those proposed by António de Oliveira Salazar.
The deputy secretary-general of the PS called the criticism “deeply unfair and unacceptable”.
“From the point of view of the content of public housing policy, today there is not a single Portuguese who is aware of a single PSD measure for this sector. And so I am forced to attribute these excesses to the inability that the PSD has proven to be a credible alternative to other areas of public intervention in this area,” he criticized.
Source: DN
